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29/11/2019 - The Council is urged to ratify the Convention on the prevention of violence against women

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The Council is urged to conclude the EU ratification of the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women, also known as the Istanbul Convention. There are different Member States that have yet failed to ratify it, namely Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia and the UK; those are the countries that are being pressed to fasten the process and bring their legislation up to the level of protection embodied in the legal disciplines and principles of current Istanbul Convention. MEPs request that the Commission adds combating gender-based violence as a priority in the next European Gender Strategy. They also ask the Commission to submit a legal act tackling all forms of gender-based violence - including online harassment and cyber violence - and plead for violence against women to be included in the catalogue of EU-recognised crimes.